Announcing UC Open Enrollment for 2008

To: UCSC Academic and Staff Employees

From: Willeen McQuitta, Director, Staff Human Resources; Pamela Peterson, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Human Resources

The University of California Office of the President has released information regarding Open Enrollment for 2008. This information may be found on the At Your Service website:

http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/news/health/08oestart.html

Open Enrollment for UC health and welfare benefits plans runs from November 1 to November 27. At the Open Enrollment website (http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/open_enrollment/index.html), you'll be able to review your current plan enrollments; read about plan benefits, services, and changes for 2008; see what the medical plan rates for 2008 will be; and use some helpful planning tools. Also, watch for the general Open Enrollment information booklet that you should receive in the mail at your home address.

Please note that you will not be able to begin the Open Enrollment process and make changes on the website until 8:00 a.m. on November 1 and no later than midnight November 27 (Pacific Time).